Would you pay $7/SRP for Bowman Draft?

ThoseBackPages · Oct 15, 2008

Just wondering how everyone felt about paying $120 at release for box of Bowman Draft Picks in the future.

Lets face it, if Topps has to compete to get kids to sign their cards, then the price will have to be
absorbed by the buyers.

Philip J. Fry · Oct 15, 2008

No. Topps has enough high end products out there.

ThoseBackPages · Oct 15, 2008

Philip J. Fry said:
No. Topps has enough high end products out there.

I agree with that, but im sure they'll jack it up due to having to give Kid A $20 grand to sign some cards

HPC · Oct 15, 2008

Maybe.

if the auto checklist was shortned, the base list was beefed up, and both had good names, i would.

If they kept 50 autos of 4th round picks, no way

phillyfan0417 · Oct 15, 2008

It would be a far more valid question if you said would you pay 7 dollars if you were to receive more than 1 auto in a box OR if the auto you received, didnt have a 50/50 chance of being the second or third card of the same player...

ThoseBackPages · Oct 15, 2008

phillyfan0417 said:
It would be a far more valid question if you said would you pay 7 dollars if you were to receive more than 1 auto in a box OR if the auto you received, didnt have a 50/50 chance of being the second or third card of the same player...

Valid points. But I think the having to spend the money to sign the Kid A's will lead to a more desired product for consumers, who'll have to pay for it via the large SRP pump up

muchuckwagon · Oct 15, 2008

That is crazy considering....

1. Pulling a base autograph of a no-name prospect with surface imperfections and 80/20 centering would be even more painful at $120 per box.

2. Base cards are worthless (resale) and 80% are damaged during packaging.

3. Collation is horrible...plain horrible....not to mention centering issues that haunt the release in past years.

pujolsjunkie · Oct 15, 2008

muchuckwagon said:
That is crazy considering....

1. Pulling a base autograph of a no-name prospect with surface imperfections and 80/20 centering would be even more painful at $120 per box.

2. Base cards are worthless (resale) and 80% are damaged during packaging.

3. Collation is horrible...plain horrible....not to mention centering issues that haunt the release in past years.

80% are damaged during packaging? Where are you buying your stuff from?

justinmandawg · Oct 15, 2008

I'd need more information but 7.00 per pack isn't highend.

muchuckwagon · Oct 15, 2008

pujolsjunkie said:
80% are damaged during packaging? Where are you buying your stuff from?

I have opened countless cases of draft and every base (not base chrome, just base) card has a corner ding.

ThoseBackPages · Oct 15, 2008

justinmandawg said:
I'd need more information but 7.00 per pack isn't highend.

But what makes BDP BDP is that it is NOT high end.

for $3 you have a shot at a card worth over a grand. sure the odds are against you, but its possible

Now i will admit to possibly being wrong, but it appears to me that the newfangled blade company thats entering the DP market has decided to not produce a BDP level product. (Please correct me if im wrong here)

the forementioned company has stated that they want Topps to "step it up" and essentially pay more for
the Kid A's of the world to sign their cards.

in order for that to become reality, Topps would have to greatly up their overhead, no?

muchuckwagon · Oct 15, 2008

From my standpoint, I hope the slow down in the economy slows sales of new releases to the point they don't sell out. In turn, this will force companies to control costs in order to produce a low cost offering that has value on the secondary market ranging from 75-80% of the SRP.

phillyfan0417 · Oct 15, 2008

ThoseBackPages said:
justinmandawg said:

I'd need more information but 7.00 per pack isn't highend.

Click to expand...

But what makes BDP BDP is that it is NOT high end.

for $3 you have a shot at a card worth over a grand. sure the odds are against you, but its possible

Now i will admit to possibly being wrong, but it appears to me that the newfangled blade company thats entering the DP market has decided to not produce a BDP level product. (Please correct me if im wrong here)

the forementioned company has stated that they want Topps to "step it up" and essentially pay more for
the Kid A's of the world to sign their cards.

in order for that to become reality, Topps would have to greatly up their overhead, no?

.

Topps hasnt done it because the consumer has never required them to do so. They put duplicate auto's in there and bad centering and all the other stuff and they are never held to any higher of a standard. The moment people started saying "chrome is king" they had no motivation to do anything. They put out an OK product and sell out, if I owned the company...

justinmandawg · Oct 15, 2008

I wish it were 2005 and shops were begging me to buy boxes of 05 tcuh for 35 / box.

end random thought

NerfXerks · Oct 15, 2008

HPC said:
Maybe.

if the auto checklist was shortned, the base list was beefed up, and both had good names, i would.

If they kept 50 autos of 4th round picks, no way

Pretty much ditto.

ryanhoward06 · Oct 15, 2008

pujolsjunkie said:
muchuckwagon said:

That is crazy considering....

1. Pulling a base autograph of a no-name prospect with surface imperfections and 80/20 centering would be even more painful at $120 per box.

2. Base cards are worthless (resale) and 80% are damaged during packaging.

3. Collation is horrible...plain horrible....not to mention centering issues that haunt the release in past years.

Click to expand...

80% are damaged during packaging? Where are you buying your stuff from?

Just like his men, MU is very picky.

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